Recent content by binky

99 days too many 😀

Being a bit of petrol head myself, I know where you are coming from. Can't stand automatics either.

There were plenty of incompetent sparks before part P, hence it was introduced.

Fair enough.

Your fuse holder says 60/80 amps so 16mm tails would be sufficient.

Looks like it would be good for bird poo or leaves on the panels blocking off cells, so an improvement on standard panels, but not a cure for hard shading issues, or they would demonstrate that.

Just spotted this. Seven countries now generate 100% of their electricity from renewable energy https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/renewable-energy-solar-climate-targets-b2529461.html

They are also now self sufficient in renewables for domestic energy, and are working hard in industrial. India had announced a new solar farm 5 times bigger than Paris. We are responsible for 3%, because if the carbon footprint if all the stuff we buy in. Stop buying stuff, just look at all...

Things have improved in 10 years. Balance point used to be 70,000 miles for an EV to be greener, I suspect that has dropped too. Agree The car does around 3000 miles a year, not a lot, Very much my philosophy on life in general - being tight fisted is green 😀

Going green has saved me a small fortune, but what we really need is the government to create the conditions for change, eg removing the block on onshore wind, giving the same tax breaks to green energy they give to oil and gas, promoting micro nuclear, promoting investment in batteries etc etc...

25 meter tails, 16mm main earth and 10mm bonding - I would ask for the report in writing and get someone else to have a look at any remedials. You don't have to use the same electrican to do the remedials, and from those sizes, if he is recommending replacement of the meter tails, and upgrading...

yep, not usually too hard in a small house in my experience.

trouble with the media is the only present short, easy to digest conclusions, and even when they have a debate it's hard to fit the whole shebang of climate science into an hour long programme. I've tried reading some of the science papers, it's a creat solution for insomnia :sleep:. Likewise...

Ok, we look for the resistance of a circuit by linking live and neutral and testing a test result at the end of the circuit. For a lighting circuit on a 6amp MCB, it should be under 7.76 ohms. Sometimes you can have a slightly highish reading of say 6ohms which experience would tell a good...

Quality of the board is irrelevant, poor fitting is another thing. Can't say I've had any real issues with BG boards, and yes, metal is all the rage. If you can't get the report, please post previous one as this will tell us what size the meter tails and earth are.